I have a confession to make. I have never seen even one episode of the Walking Dead! It just didn’t seem like a good investment of my time. But today I ran across a humorous, if somewhat dated (you will understand in a moment) story about a company’s attempt to drum up some business, and it seemed appropriate to mention it here.
Dr. Park Tucker, former chaplain of the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, told of walking down the street in a certain city, feeling low and depressed and worried about life in general. As he walked along, he lifted his eyes for a moment to the window of a funeral home across the street. He blinked his eyes a couple of times, wondering whether his eyes were deceiving him.
But sure enough, he saw in the window of that funeral home was this sign, in large, bold words:
“Why walk around half-dead?
We can bury you for $69.50.P.S. We also give green stamps.”
Dr. Tucker said the humor of it was good medicine for his soul. Many people are walking around half-dead because worry has built a mountain of problems over which there is no path, and they have surrendered to fate.
Tan, P. L. (1996). Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (pp. 336–337).
Bible Communications, Inc.
If you have been to a funeral home lately, the price of that burial compared to a modern funeral will make you cry too! But seriously, lift up your heads people of God.
Sure, politics in the country are a mess.
The heat dome over half the country is a bother.
War and strife,
bitterness and anger,
violence and heartache travel with billions of people every day across our globe.
But,
if you belong to Jesus, there is still reason to lift your head.
- Jesus is still a Savior.
- Jesus is still on His throne.
- Jesus is still Lord.
- Jesus is still collecting all our tears.
- Jesus still offers forgiveness to all who repent.
- The gospel is still good news.
- Jesus is coming back and He is still going to make things right.
There is a lot we don’t know. Be we KNOW these things.
So keep your head up, even through your tears.
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